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Aquamantra Gives the Gift of Luck to This Year’s Nominees In “Extra’s” Award Lounge with its “I Am Lucky” Natural Spring Bottled Water

Aquamantra is cheering on television’s finest with a bottle of “I Am Lucky” in “Extra’s” premiere gift bag. During this week’s special “Extra” Awards Lounge, Aquamantra is offering an added benefit of luck via their natural spring bottled water, “I Am Lucky.”

In addition to a bottle of “I Am Lucky” in their premier Jewels and Pinstripes’ gift bag, nominated actresses and actors are also being hydrated with a year’s supply of Aquamantra’s “I Am Loved,” “I Am Lucky” and “I Am Healthy” water at a value of $1000.

Bonnie MacLeod Premieres Jazz Songs of Paul Turner on 24 May 2008 in Cambridge, MA

Bonnie MacLeod will premiere jazz songs of Stephen Feigenbaum and Eric Funk on which Paul Turner is the lyricist.

Bonnie MacLeod's performances are part of the Cabaret Songwriters Showcase of 2008, which takes place on 24 May 2008 at The Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event runs from 7:00pm to 10:00pm.

Ticket prices are $20 for the general public, and $18 for members of the Boston Cabaret Association. To order tickets, visit http://bostoncabaret.com/pages/ticketsf.html

Wholesale Chess Buys Chess Equipment Inventory of Closing Chess Discounters

In early February 2005, Wholesale Chess Equipment, LLC (www.wholesalechess.com) purchased the remaining chess sets, books, software, and all other inventory items from Chess Discounters (www.chessdiscounters.com) as they ceased operations. Chess Discounters leaves the following message for all customers: "Thank you for your patronage! It was our pleasure to serve you. - The Staff at Chess Discounters"

Wholesale Chess, the Internet's premier online chess store, purchased those assets in a move to position itself more solidly in the chess media market. This month Wholesale Chess began to carry the full line of chess software from Chessbase and Convekta (aka Chess Assistant), all available at below retail prices. Additionally, Wholesale Chess is ramping up for a full launch of hundreds of new book titles, intended to all be priced at or below Amazon.com prices. "We want the chess players of the world to have One place they can come to for all of their chess needs, and to have them know that they will get their items immediately and at the guaranteed lowest prices," stated Erik Allebest, owner of Wholesale Chess. Wholesale Chess carries an inventory of over 500 different chess items, with more than 100,000 total items on the shelf. Erik continues, "We understand that nothing is more frustrating than ordering something online and then not receiving that item, and finally having it shipped out a week after you expected it to arrive because it was drop shipped from someplace else. That is why we carry 95% of the items on our site in our warehouse." The Wholesale Chess warehouse is located in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Dexia Crédit Local Extends Scope of Use of riskpro™

In the frame of the reviewing process of its ALM information system, Dexia Credit Local has chosen the integrated riskpro™ solution and its results analysis database, the GADB (Global Analysis Database).

This project allows integrating in successive stages the collection of operations of the company's balance sheet (600'000 operations under an accounting plan of 8'500 nodes), implemented on the type blade calculators which was necessary in order to make the solution secure, productive and durable.

Ariel's Child -- The Little Engine That Could

On Sunday May 7th, Ariel’s Child is celebrating its 20th anniversary, with a variety of fun activities from 12:00 – 4:00. There will be raffles, special guest appearances by Mark MacFarland, Inventor of “Morphs” and Kazi Oliver, Musician, and arts and craft activities all day. Hannaford, our partner in education, is sponsoring the event and providing refreshments. This is an event for children of all ages. Call Ariel’s Child at 845-565-2235 to get filled in on all the details.

Ricki Block, Owner of Ariel’s Child, reflects on the growth of her business over the past 20 years. The name “Ariel” was chosen because of a well-known song from the 80’s, “Ariel”, sung by Dean Friedman, who lives in Cortlandt Manor, NY. Ricki has had the opportunity to meet him in 1999 and he gave a musical performance for the children at the store.

Personalized News Discovery and Visualization, Diggol Launches Hot Topics and TopicMap

New personalized free service to automatically discover topics important to each user from millions of blogs and news sources, and to visualize graphically the relations among the topics in one glance.

User generated contents are exploding and are changing the news media. There are over 37 million blogs now and the number of blogs is doubling every six months. On average, a new blog is created every second of every day, and over 1.2 million blog entries are posted every day. That is about 500,000 new posts every hour. The surging popularity of podcasts and videoblogs are further accelerating this explosive growth. How can an Internet user discover and keep track of information important to him from so many blogs and news sources in the shortest amount of time?

FLAVORx/SAVEURx+ Partners with Primary Care Today Canada and the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores

FLAVORx, the biotech company that has defined an industry, announced today that it will renew two key partnerships: the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores (CACDS) & Primary Care Today, Canada. Setting the gold-standard for medicinal flavoring and continuing its mission to improve medicinal compliance, FLAVORx has been continually recognized by the industry, as both a credible and successful organization, and also one of Alberta’s fastest growing companies.

The company declared that for a third straight year it plans to attend the CACDS annual meeting. In addition, the company will again be joining Primary Care Today, one of Canada’s leading medical symposium groups. In order to expand its presence throughout the Canadian medical community, FLAVORx plans to participate in the Symposium Francophone de Medicine and Primary Care Today’s national medical conference. Medical providers throughout Canada commonly search for the best remedies to aid patient compliance including critical issues that surface due to bad taste or foul smell of a medication. FLAVORx will showcase their scientifically tested & medically proven medicinal compliance program to hundreds of medical providers. Their efforts will be bolstered by advanced educational research that addresses the significance of scientifically tested, medicinal flavoring on adherence to medicinal regimens.

A New Name, A New Focus For thinkASG

thinkASG (Advanced Systems Group) today launches an expanded product offering and a new 2.0 customer communications strategy to better position itself with current changing market conditions.

Combined with a global expansion of service and product offerings from its core IBM hardware competency, the company's new strategic communications initiatives include the adoption of multiple Web & Enterprise 2.0 strategies, including a revised name and visual identity, an updated solution guidebook, and a more comprehensive 2.0 website. Together these solutions provide valuable real time information and knowledge to help its customers work with thinkASG to architect and implement the right solutions.

iBwave Solutions Innovates with a Unique Worldwide Online Solution to Enrich the In-Building Industry

iBwave Solutions Inc, the creator of RF-vu the in-building industry standard software, releases today the first beta version of a vendor neutral in-building components database to help RF-engineers worldwide better design indoor networks. This in-building components database is accessible online by anyone who is looking to accurately design and plan indoor projects using the latest components available on the market.

"We strongly believe that our online in-building components database will deliver enormous benefits to the in-building community. Instead of searching components through separate paper catalogs that quickly run obsolete, our online database is constantly updated and is continuously growing," said Mario Bouchard, President and CEO of iBwave. "Our RF-vu software includes both a worldwide frequency and technology mapping database and a component database that we have successfully combined together to make those components available publicly to the in-building industry value-chain. The online database currently contains over 2.7 million of possibilities when combining the different search filters. Users can now have direct access to over 3,700 components from more than 120 equipment manufacturers worldwide."

NouvEON Receives National Award for Top Growth

The Entrex Private Company Index (PCI) recognized Charlotte-based business and technology consulting firm NouvEON for significant revenue growth during the first quarter of 2009. During this time, the company reported 82 percent growth. The PCI is a benchmarking index that measures the monthly revenue performance of private companies in North America.

NouvEON placed third on the PCI's top ten list for Q1 high-growth companies. Overall, the top ten companies experienced a combined average quarterly revenue increase of 39 percent, with a median of 26 percent. NouvEON posted significant revenue growth of 82 percent between Q1 2009 compared to a year ago.

Oneupweb's ROI trax® Tool Combats Pay-Per-Click Trademark Infringement

Oneupweb, a leading national search engine optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) firm, today announced the release of a new trademark infringement monitoring tool, which adds to its already successful marketing analytics tool, ROI trax®. This new tool directly benefits companies with strong brand names.

Companies work hard to create strong, well-known brands with great reputations. Consumers use these brand names as keywords on search engines like Google, Yahoo! or MSN, hoping to research or buy those brands. By purchasing pay-per-click (PPC) ads triggered by brand names, competitors can siphon traffic and steal brand awareness-brand awareness it didn't build.

Is There Room in the Marketplace for a Simple, Inexpensive Online Auction Site? TWay is Betting "Yes"

At a time when the giants in the online auction business are spending billions on expansions and acquisitions, TWay.com, a small but customer-focused online auction site, works hard to focus on its core business -- inexpensively-priced online transactions.

TWay.com began its operations with a modestly-priced fee structure and no listing fees. That policy continues to this day, even as the giants of the industry increase their fees and embark on expensive corporate shopping sprees -- sprees that are financed by their customers.

New Company Offers Affordable Health Insurance Online

GetHealthInsurance.com, a start-up created by two savvy Miami businessmen with extensive experience in the health insurance industry, has started writing policies for individuals, families and businesses.

"If someone can afford to pay a monthly cell phone bill," says company CEO Christopher Olsen, "we can help them find a way to afford health insurance." An estimated 3.6 million Floridians have no health insurance and another 47 million are uninsured nationwide. Millions more are covered, usually through their employer, but are often dissatisfied with the cost, service and provider network.

Leading Australian Health Insurer Opens Customer Service Branch in Perth

This week Australia's second largest non-government health insurer is opening its doors in Western Australia for the first time, with a new customer branch at St George's Terrace in Perth. To mark the occasion, AFL players from the Fremantle Football Club will be on site as part of a week of celebrations and festivities at the branch and in the Murray Street Mall, including free public blood pressure tests, complementary breakfasts and Fremantle player signings.

State Manager, Michael Clarke, said the new customer branch would complement HBA's existing web, telephone and mobile customer service operations locally, providing Western Australians with even better access to one of the nation's leading health care providers.

Pro-Life Search Engine Raises over $11,000 for Charities

ProLifeSearch.com, the Web’s first pro-life search engine, announced today that it raised over $11,000 in charitable donations for pro-life organizations through its Internet operations.

“We are both proud and humbled by this achievement,” said Jack Manhire, one of the two founders of ProLifeSearch.com. “The pro-life community’s active support is the only reason we have been able to accomplish this charitable goal in such a short period of time. The credit really goes to our pro-life user community.”

New Web Site Aims to Increase Meaningful Parent Involvement in Schools

A just-launched Web site, ParentInvolvementMatters.org, aims to increase meaningful parent involvement both at school and at home, and to encourage successful family-school-community partnerships. The site was created by a grassroots group of parents, educators, counselors, psychologists, school administrators and professional trainers who advocate involvement beyond bake sales and traditional school volunteering.

Marilyn Price-Mitchell, president of the nonprofit ParentInvolvementMatters.org, explains, "Most schools miss the opportunity to foster the type of parent involvement that contributes to better parenting and higher-achieving students. Instead, they deluge parents with requests to fill volunteer jobs and raise money. While these activities are essential to the survival of many schools, they don't help kids develop into successful adults.

Authors Say Free 'Welcome to Earth' Instruction Manual Should Have Been Issued to Each Human Being at Birth

"Welcome to Earth, A Guide to Human Potential" is a 292 page How-To Manual which is the next step in utilizing the Law of Attraction, the teachings of the Secret and in harnessing the amazing powers of the imagination. It gives instructions on controlling and understanding the biological process of re-routing neural connections to create permanent, positive habits which will replace past destructive or undesired ones. This is a proven scientific formula of attaining goals of renewed health, increased wealth, wonderful relationships or happiness in 30 days.

SavATree Acquires H.R. Spooner Ornamental Care, Furthers Strategic Expansion on Cape Cod

SavATree, the Northeast/ Mid-Atlantic leader in tree, shrub and lawn care, today announced a merger with East Falmouth, MA based local provider of plant health care services H.R. Spooner Ornamental Care. By merging the expertise and resources of both SavATree and H.R. Spooner Ornamental Care, the Cape Cod community will now have an enhanced one-stop shop for tree, shrub and lawn care. H.R. Spooner Ornamental Care has been providing residents with quality and dependable plant health care for over a decade. As Spooner considered merger options, they wanted to entrust the business to a company that was closely aligned in values and high quality standards. Arboricultural excellence, value added programs, and customer focus are some of the shared values, and are ultimately why Spooner chose SavATree.

Culinary School Ranking List

January 21, 2003 -- Chef2Chef announced the addition of a ranking list to measure the popularity of culinary campuses across the United States. Culinary students and chefs nominate campuses and vote for them by casting a one to five star rating. The list is updated hourly.

This new system operates in similar fashion as the top lists of restaurants, chefs, culinary instructors, culinary web sites, wines and others, which have garnered over half a million votes since their inception at Chef2Chef. You can access all ranking lists by pointing your browser to http://chef2chef.net/rank/

Wedding Planners To Tie Their Own Knot

Darryl Flores and Carolyn Melendez, wedding planners with Weddings by Showtime have recently been planning one more wedding than those of their existing clientele...their own.

Darryl Flores, Founder and COO of Weddings by Showtime, an event producing company, will marry Carolyn Melendez on Saturday, October 2, 2004. Carolyn, Executive Director of Operations for Weddings by Showtime started working for Weddings by Showtime on a part time basis in February, when the couple started dating. In July, she quit her job of 21 years with USAA to completely focus on the growing business.

Being in the industry, family and friends expectations of the event are high. The event will not disappoint With our experience in planning weddings, we knew exactly what we wanted and what vendors we would use" said Darryl. . The couple will host a Black and White" affair with 'Oscar Night flair at The Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio, complete with red carpet, velvet ropes and paparazzi.

The only difficult part was finding ways to allow the wedding professionals we selected the opportunity to work and attend our wedding." Melendez said. It will be easier for our bigger vendors, but our one and two person companies like our florists will be pulling double duty."